# October 4 *Lectures from this day: 10 recordings* --- **[[spoken/681004le.sea|Lecture — October 4, 1968, Seattle]]** --- **[[spoken/721004sb.la|SB 1.3.29 — October 4, 1972, Los Angeles]]** **Devotees:** All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda. **[devotees offer obeisances] Pradyumna: *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Canto One, Chapter 3, text 29. [leads chanting of verse] [**Prabhupāda and **devotees repeat] --- **[[spoken/731004r1.bom|Room Conversation with Indian Guest — October 4, 1973, Bombay]]** **Prabhupāda:** That is my... Therefore this experience... You have got some experience, I have got some experience and another has experience. But so far you are talking of *Bhagavad-gītā...* Because you say that Aurobindo has written on the *Bhagavad-gītā.* The *Bhagavad-gītā* says... In the *Bhagavad-gītā* it is said, Kṛṣṇa says: Like that. He says that *mattaḥ parataram:* "There is no more superior, supramental or Supreme Personality..." As you say supramental, it is with reference to a person. Just like Aurobindo, supramental. That means it is with reference to the Aurobindo person. Is it not? Any mental, as you say "mental," it is with reference to a person. --- **[[../../spoken/1974/741004sb.may.md|SB 1.8.24 — October 4, 1974, Māyāpur]]** *[Lecture file not found]* --- **[[spoken/751004mw.mau|Morning Walk — October 4, 1975, Mauritius]]** **Prabhupāda:** ...Christian missionaries. They are trying to convert others, but they are closing their churches. They are selling their churches to us. **Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa:** Finding new suckers. In South Africa they put up big *paṇḍāls,* and because the Indian people, they have no entertainment in the evening, so they go there and they are entertained, and they learn how to sing the hymns that they have. Then you find that the children are singing the hymns because that's the songs that they're learning. If we can provide entertainment like that in the form of *saṅkīrtana,* then they'll also sing Hare Kṛṣṇa and become devotees of Kṛṣṇa. [break] **Prabhupāda:** ...own Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?" [laughter] --- **[[spoken/751004r1.mau|Room Conversation — October 4, 1975, Mauritius]]** **Brahmānanda:** ...it becomes a young man, but the same scar is on his body. So they will say it's the same body. **Prabhupāda:** Yes. There is no similarity. Why the child... There was no mustaches. Why you have mustaches? How you can say, "The same body"? You shall have to give your own argument. Child had no mustaches; you have got now mustaches. How you can say the same body? The child had no sex desire; now you have got sex desire. **Brahmānanda:** They would say all these things are dormant within the child's body, and now they are coming out. --- **[[spoken/751004sb.mau|SB 7.5.31 — October 4, 1975, Mauritius]]** **Harikeśa:** *O*ṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* *Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.* [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] *Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,* Seventh Canto, Fifth Chapter, thirty-first verse. [leads chanting of verse, etc.] --- **[[spoken/761004r1.vrn|Room Conversation — October 4, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** [break] You should maintain the temple. They already call it *angrej* [English] temple. But still people come. But if you make a *mleccha* temple... Actually, [laughs] they can say like that, but still they come. But their awe and veneration may be disturbed..., may not be disturbed. That is management. **Hari-śauri:** One of the things they can't criticize is our Deity worship, because it's a lot better than anywhere else. **Prabhupāda:** The servant should be kept only when it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, everything should be done by us. --- **[[spoken/761004sb.vrn|SB 1.7.44 — October 4, 1976, Vṛndāvana]]** **Pradyumna:*Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. *[devotees repeat] [chants verse] **Translation:** "It was by Droṇācārya's mercy that you learned the military art of throwing arrows and the confidential art of controlling weapons." This is also another Vedic civilization, that if you are benefited by somebody, you should always remain obliged to him. *Śikṣito yad-anugrahāt.* There is one Bengali proverb, *guru-mārā-vidyā:* "*Guru,* you learn from him first of all, then kill him. Don't care for *guru.*" This is demonic. By the grace of *guru* you learn something; then when you learn something, then you become greater than him, don't care for *guru.* This is demonic. Even if you have learned something, you must feel always obliged, *patha pradarśaka.* --- **[[spoken/771004r1.vrn|Room Conversation — October 4, 1977, Vṛndāvana]]** **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** The time is about ten o'clock in the morning. I think tomorrow we can go to see the Deity, Prabhupāda. [break] More swollen than I've seen it in months. Last night you said was havoc. Do you have any headache? **Tamāla Kṛṣṇa:** So you want to sit up now, Śrīla Prabhupāda, for bathing? Abhirāma and Upendra will clean you now, Śrīla Prabhupāda, change sheets. Everything has to be cleansed. **Haṁsadūta:** ...self-independent. But we can see as you explain to us, when they get this education they become just like a dog going from door to door looking for a morsel of food. The island of Sri Lanka is very, very green, because they have a lot of rainfall. Right now it's rainy season and very lush. All fruits, vegetables grow there. But the government has a foolish policy. They produce tea and tobacco and rubber and all useless, rubbish things. They could produce food ten times for the population, but they don't do that. --- ## Letters - [[../../letters/pre-1966/651004_sripad_narayana_maharaja.md|Letter to Sripad Narayana Maharaja, 1965]] - [[../../letters/1967/671004_brahmananda.md|Letter to Brahmananda, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1967/671004_rayarama.md|Letter to Rayarama, 1967]] - [[../../letters/1969/691004_bali_mardan.md|Letter to Bali Mardan, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1969/691004_manager_of_equitable_savings_bank.md|Letter to Manager Of Equitable Savings Bank, 1969]] - [[../../letters/1970/701004_daivisakti_nayanabhirama.md|Letter to Daivisakti Nayanabhirama, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1970/701004_yogesvara.md|Letter to Yogesvara, 1970]] - [[../../letters/1972/721004_giriraja.md|Letter to Giriraja, 1972]] - [[../../letters/1973/731004_hanuman.md|Letter to Hanuman, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731004_karandharaa.md|Letter to Karandharaa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731004_karandharab.md|Letter to Karandharab, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1973/731004_satsvarupa.md|Letter to Satsvarupa, 1973]] - [[../../letters/1976/761004_balavanta.md|Letter to Balavanta, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761004_harikesa.md|Letter to Harikesa, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761004_kacoriaji.md|Letter to Kacoriaji, 1976]] - [[../../letters/1976/761004_tamala_krsna.md|Letter to Tamala Krsna, 1976]]